TUNMER, George
George Tunmer was born at Ipswich on 18 December 1806 and baptised at Tacket Street Independent Church, Ipswich on 1 February 1807, son of Robert Tunmer (December 1782-February 1828) and his wife Ann née Adams (1782-November 1831), who married at St Matthew's Church, Ipswich on 3 April 1804. George married at St Matthew's Church, Ipswich on 21 May 1833, Elizabeth Kettle (1816-1852). A member of the Ipswich Society of Professional & Amateur Artists from 1834, where he was tutored by Henry Davy. In 1841, a draper in Tavern Street, Ipswich, and was still there in 1851, a 44-year-old woollen draper, with his 34-year-old wife Elizabeth and their seven children, Thomas Kettle, 14, Alfred George (1841-3 October 1863), John Harris 10, Neville 5, Elizabeth 3, Emma 1 and newly born Marian, all born at Ipswich. His wife died at Ipswich in 1852 and by 1861 George had moved to Freehold Road, St Margaret, Ipswich with three of his children. George Tunmer died at Ipswich on 21 February 1864.